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Tim Berners-Lee just received the prestigious Turing Award that comes with a million dollars. Now he plots a radical overhaul of his creation.
Berners-Lee says Web access is a human right—and the technology he created needs a rethink.
How a public blockchain would fundamentally change the way we govern and do business.
SpaceX launched a commercial satellite into space on Thursday with the boost of a partly used rocket, a feat that may open an era of cheaper space travel.
More than 30% of biomedical studies funded by the US government are later cited in commercial patents.
Several pricey drugs projected as best-sellers have flopped, unnerving the industry. Is the era of the biotech blockbuster over?
New machine-learning algorithm lets computers “talk” to one another, win cooperative games.
Decision contrasts with U.S. ruling in long-standing battle over genome-editing tool
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Trump is going to unveil a new White House agency called the "Office of American Innovation".
European Digital City Index measures fertility of cities across Europe for innovative digital firms.
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, researchers reveal what more than €12bn of ERC funding has supported.
If we abandon the cult of the Great White Innovator, we will understand the history of technology in a much deeper way.
Transcript of Moedas' speech on funding and innovation.
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
MIT’s Kate Darling, who writes the rules of human-robot interaction, says an AI-enabled apocalypse should be the least of our concerns.
We have long believed ourselves to be the only intelligent beings on Earth – that may soon change and the consequences will be dramatic for law, politics and society in general.
Diverse approaches suit different goals.
Researchers at Stanford University have created an AI algorithm that can identify skin cancer as well as a professional doctor.
Think the current fake news issue is bad? It won’t get any better with AI.
A law that aimed to stimulate the creation of spin-offs hasn't had much effect.
The establishment of university-affiliated incubators is often followed by a reduction in the quality of university innovations.
The dispute between researchers at UC Berkeley and the Broad Institute over the invention of the powerful gene-editing technique has been decided.
Doudna and Berkeley may appeal the ruling in favor of MIT and Harvard. There is big money at stake.
The drone can carry a person and a small suitcase, and flies at up to 100 miles per hour.
Virtualitics launches software that immerses viewers in complex models of data
The establishment of university-affiliated incubators is often followed by a reduction in the quality of university innovations, according to a new study co-authored by a Baylor University entrepreneurship professor.
This episode we spoke to Max Hodak Founder and CEO of Transcriptic, a Menlo Park based biotech company offering a robotic solution to research in the life sciences.
And why should you care? There's a global trend of companies integrating hackathons into their overall innovation strategy.
Nordic nations dominate the top 15, while South Korea reigns supreme and Russia is dealt a huge blow.
